Exhibition & Text: Doorways
Fringe Arts Bath
26th May - 10th June 2018
I am exhibiting new Sculpturescape work at the Fringe Arts Bath. The curators Mike and Dona Bradley, describe doorways as thresholds to somewhere new. Doorways are the physical symbol of the transition – of change – between the ‘now’ and the ‘next’, from ‘here’ to ‘there’; moving in, moving out, moving on. Familiar in ritual, religion, myth and literature, doorways have emotional power. Doorways occupy the liminal space between two states of being, a transition that has to be negotiated before the ‘next’ can begin.
Rite of Passage is one of the Sculpturescapes I am showing at the exhibition. It shows a lady alone in a pose of prayer, consolation or meditation. We are looking through into her private space from the vantage point of a doorway, a crack in the door or a door that is ajar. We ask ourselves whether we should be looking? We are not being invited to enter in through the doorway, but to stay outside and hidden. If we look beyond her, we see that she entered from another mysterious space, through a dimly lit archway. It holds a slight feeling of eeriness. It asks questions: Where does this doorway take her? Where has she come from? Who is she and in what sort of world does she belong? Does she belong to our time? In what sort of world do we belong? Is this a doorway to an earlier time when prayer and contemplation were commonplace?
